How COVID-19 changes climate action

What is our responsibility during a pandemic, during the climate crisis, during centuries of white supremacy? Monique López, founder of Pueblo Planning, and Aditi Bansal help unpack those questions.
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[@nerdyandawesome]

I just don't get why this channel doesn't have more subscribers. It's absolutely as well produced as the other discussion channels I follow which have a million subscribers. And the content is always thought provoking and well phrased. Great job!

[@zentouro]

working on it :P i should probably upload a bit more regularly to reach those upper echelons, but if you want to share this video with your friends or folks who might be interested, i'd definitely appreciate that.

[@OurChangingClimate]

Ahhh this is so good! Thank you Miriam! Thank you Monique! Thank you Aditi!

[@zentouro]

thanks charlie!

[@Alex-cw3rz]

As someone who is taking a master in urban planning this is a great video!

[@metalxhead]

Aditi, from 9:39: "Saying we need to fix everything is a lot easier than actually doing the work." I personally keep running into this wall. It's also exasperating because WHAT SHOULD WE DO? Is whatever I do enough? Is *failing* enough?? I appreciate Monique's solution, from 10:27, that we should approach these issues, and life more generally, with both creativity and compassion. I appreciate and support the recommendation to use imagination and love when problem solving, and I intend to apply this mindset from now on. I have several books in progress right now, including "Twitter and Tear Gas" by Zeynep Tufekci (about protests in a digital age), "The Devil You Know" by Charles Blow (a Black manifesto), "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You" by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, and "Facing the Climate Emergency" by Margaret Klein Salamon. I'm also editing a dissertation about the environmental, social, and political devastation resulting from corporate mining in Guatemala, especially for indigenous peoples, and how protestors can potentially construct more effective resistance movements. But I'm struggling with consuming versus producing content. When does research become sufficient for action? When does reading become a way to actually avoid taking action? What kinds of action are enough? I'm thinking about starting a blog or a cheap website to explore these questions myself, but would that even be valuable? I'm not an expert-but is that a pitfall or an advantage? I don't want to harm the movement or encourage/enable misinformation. Or should people's efforts in general, or my efforts in particular, be directed elsewhere? This IS a scary, multi-headed dragon; it's difficult to even approach, let alone address, a single aspect of this hydra, especially because it feels like paying attention to one issue means prioritizing one concern at the cost of ignoring another equally valid and pressing emergency. It feels utterly debilitating and paralyzing to consider the scope. Apologies for the length and somewhat fragmented concerns... but this kind of consciousness feels like a symptom of another concern-where does a person go to hash out these kinds of questions and issues and ideas? What communities are available that are more than simply forums for like-minded individuals to vent about the climate crisis, but places to learn, to legitimately seek answers, offer useful advice, and access cohesive information? Again, sorry for this rambling conglomeration of thoughts. I appreciate and look forward to whatever response this may receive.

[@andydutton455]

I think it shows the whole world can act, even if many complain.

[@mathieubarnes5324]

I love your content so much. Always just so insightful.

[@KarolaTea]

Great video, and great thoughts! Thanks to all of you!

[@JeremySmith-wc4lh]

I have school right now, but will definitely be back to watch later today!

[@zentouro]

i hope you have a good day at school!

[@JeremySmith-wc4lh]

@@zentouro I did, Thanks!I did really well on a Chinese test that I was worried about. Also, I had a ton of homework, so I wasn't able to get to the video until now. I enjoyed the discussion style and it is obvious how much work went into this on, with all the back and forth cuts. I don't know too much about NYC, but the crop degradation and loss due to supply chain and climate change combined, and how these impacts compound really made sense and gave me the chills. Thanks for the awesome video!

[@zentouro]

congratulations on your test! that's awesome. thanks for coming back and checking out the video (but also kudos to you getting your schoolwork done first, i admit that i don't always have that kind of restraint). have you noticed any similar links between the pandemic and climate where you live?

[@HebaruSan]

What about folks who reject that we should "love each other in a way that maybe we didn't do as intentionally"? This message sounds like preaching to the choir without confronting the structural problems at the root of all of this.

[@zentouro]

Do you mind expanding on that a bit? This conversation was operating on more or less two levels: systemic structural change, how do planners design cities and tools to do that properly like, how does NYC properly respond to the threats of heat, racism, and COVID - AND how do we as individuals go about our daily lives with intentionality so that we are doing our best not to contribute to these harmful systems around us. when it comes to talking about individual actions, i do agree it does kind of 'preach to the choir' or end up trending into if we all just 'loved each other more' things would get better - which clearly isn't true. But it is definitely a, that's the bare minimum, kind of thing.

[@garry8390]

Firstly you are doing some great work BUT I think you are wasting your time. We can't cleverly think our way out of climate change, we must courageously act our way out of it. In other words you can spend years fruitlessly campaigning and coming up with ideas to change peoples minds or you can do the simple but hard and effective thing and just march on a coal plant and insert an actual spanner into the turbine by force. You may get arrested and go to jail for many years like pipeline protesters have but at least what you did will work. There will be no sympathy for you from most of the population and you will be called a terrorist but that is the lie that is used to prevent you from taking any meaningful action.

[@zentouro]

i'm a pretty firm believer in: why not both. i make these videos, i publish climate research, i march in the street, i call my representatives, and when it isn't a pandemic i also sometimes show up in their offices.

[@garry8390]

@@zentouro Fair play. When you start making videos about why destruction of property is necessary then I'll subscribe.

[@zentouro]

a conversation around the effectiveness and uses of property destruction as protest is definitely a worthwhile and relevant topic. granted, my production timeline is quite slow, so you'll probably be waiting a while, but i'll let you know.

[@mirkofernd]

incidentally, I will unsubscribe to any channel advocating for deliberate destruction of property (as an engineer any destruction of anything bothers me and destroying the bulldozer that just destroyed the trees on the field I like won't help either. better leave as many things intact as possible and make sure resources are used in efficient construction not deliberate destruction). Destroying turbines or energy producing machines won't help (its just wasting even more resources and adding to insurance costs), also if you provoke a blackout, several ordinary people will throw on their own very inefficient backup generators. You can and should do on the other hand legally "Block" fossil fuel pipeline construction and fossil fuel distribution, not by destroying things but just by making it harder and more expensive than an alternative by repeatedly "being in their way". I would suggest looking how anti-nuclear energy demonstrations in Germany and France were organized to just increase the handling cost of those resources without physical harm of any sort. No one gets jailed nor physically harmed but the energy conglomerates (at least in Germany) just agreed on not wanting to deal with nuclear anymore!

[@garry8390]

@@mirkofernd oh good idea we'll have a protest and maybe in 5 or 10 years they'll shut them off and if it doesn't work well sure who cares, what's the rush?